Random stutters. New build. Help?

MikeTtv · 9 Jan 2019 at 23:37

Hey. So just over 2 months I decided to build a new PC. Everything brand new besides the power supply.
From day one I have been experiencing these random in game stutters. Not even a second long.
just enough to take you out of the game and cause you to question the issue. I actively tried to lower graphics and capping the frames but this issue continues. This is not limited to online games.

My Rig:
Ryzen 7 2700x Non OC'd
EVGA GTX 1080 FTW edition
GIGABYTE X470 AORUS Ultra gaming AM4/DDR4 Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4 3200 MHz C16 XMP 2.0 Enthusiast RGB LED
Corsair CX 500 PSU (1.5 Years old)

Anyone have an ideas or troubleshoots to suss out what the issue is or how to correct it I would appreciate the help. Any more information you need. Please ask. Thanks in advance.

MartinPrince · 10 Jan 2019 at 11:08

At first glance your PSU appears slightly weak for your system. Though I'm not usre if it is your PSU is there any way of trying it with another one. What processes do you have running in the background?

MikeTtv · 10 Jan 2019 at 15:12

MartinPrince said:
At first glance your PSU appears slightly weak for your system. Though I'm not usre if it is your PSU is there any way of trying it with another one. What processes do you have running in the background?

I believed that could have been the issue when I first began investigating but a friend of mine bought the exact same Rig with a more suitable PSU (Corsair tx-m 650) and he is experiencing the same slight stutters in his games.
Both PC's were built by him.
As far as the processes go there is nothing out of the ordinary. Steam,Avast,NIVIDA,steam and Spotify.
I compared these processes too a friends just now and again, nothing out of the ordinary.
Still at a loss as to why unfortunately.

EsaT · 10 Jan 2019 at 18:45

Letting this monitor on background until hickup could tell something if it's some buggy driver.
https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon

This could be also set to show CPU history graph per process.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer
Right mouse click in that bar with "Process" "CPU etc and then open Select Columns and Process Performance tab.

Aftrer hiccup there might be something in theses.

Randomface74 · 10 Jan 2019 at 18:56

Make sure you have the latest nvidia driver installed.
I'd say that PSU is also not suitable for that machine. 650W minimum IMO.

MikeTtv · 10 Jan 2019 at 19:32

EsaT said:
Letting this monitor on background until hickup could tell something if it's some buggy driver.
https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon

This could be also set to show CPU history graph per process.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer
Right mouse click in that bar with "Process" "CPU etc and then open Select Columns and Process Performance tab.

Aftrer hiccup there might be something in theses.

Here is the feedback I got from the latencymon. Its prompting me to make these changes but I wanted to share the results before doing anything to see if they would justify the in game stutters. Please let me know what you think!

Randomface74 · 10 Jan 2019 at 19:35

Check for BIOS updates?

EsaT · 10 Jan 2019 at 19:52

It's drivers tab which tells the useful data.
Though over 2ms is certainly abnormally high DPC latency.
And Nvidia driver was the culprit for that.

tamzzy · 10 Jan 2019 at 19:53

i'd run memtest (just because it's nice to know it isn't a hardware fault on the ram - although this should give you random hang ups as a symptom, rather than microstutter...but you never know)
and then run DDU and fully uninstall the nvidia driver and reinstall it again.

MikeTtv · 10 Jan 2019 at 19:55

EsaT said:
It's drivers tab which tells the useful data.
Though over 2ms is certainly abnormally high DPC latency.
And Nvidia driver was the culprit for that.

EsaT · 10 Jan 2019 at 21:13

Nvidia driver is the only "major offender" in there.
And it could well cause also that les than optimal execution time for DirectX.
They're pretty tied together.

With that one network related driver could also make sure ethernet adapter has latest driver.
It's Intel 211 chip
https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/gigabyte-x470-aorus-ultra-gaming-review,6.html
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25016/Intel-Network-Adapter-Driver-for-Windows-10

MartinPrince · 10 Jan 2019 at 21:25

EsaT said:
Letting this monitor on background until hickup could tell something if it's some buggy driver.
https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon

This could be also set to show CPU history graph per process.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer
Right mouse click in that bar with "Process" "CPU etc and then open Select Columns and Process Performance tab.

Aftrer hiccup there might be something in theses.

Thanks for posting that. It's a really useful tool and will come in handy in future.

Threepwood · 10 Jan 2019 at 21:27

Tried a fresh OS install yet?